nemu PinguyOS

Saat ini, kita dapat meng-costumise mesin linux kita dengan berbagai effect, applikasi dan tapilan interface yang kita inginkan. Kita dapat dengan mudah membuatnya mampu memainkan berbagai format file multimedia, menyesuaikan tampilan sesuai dengan apa yang kita bayangkan atau inginkan, membuatnya mirip sekali dengan Windows, Mac, atau tampilan sangar ala hacker di filem-filem. Hal-hal itu sekarang dapat dengan mudah g n dengan package manager atau UI manager yang sudah ada. Di Gnome ada Gnome Art, yang memungkinkan kita menginstall apa saja yang disediakannya (mulai dari tema, border window, icon, theme bahkan emoticon). Begitu juga dengan KDE yang telah siap dengan KDE Look. Sangat mudah, meskipun bagi yg baru dengan Linux hal itu agak ribet (tp jangan kuatir, ribet2 asik kok)

Tapi klo ada yg mau coba tapi tidak pake proses di atas, maunya Linuxnya langsung keren dan bisa apa aja setelah di install silahkan baca paragraph berikutnya:

Bulan lalu, pas lagi asik stumbling ga sengaja menemukan pinguyOS, system tersebut berbasis Ubuntu 10.10 yang di permak dan di tuning habis-habisan. Begitu mencoba liveCD-nya saya langsung terkesima dengan tampilannya yang ala Mac, bukan hanya menu aplikasi yang ada di bawah, tapi juga menu-bar yang menempel di langit-langit desktop. Berikut kelebihan lainnya yg langsung di bundle:

• Bisa play restricted media format – langsung VLC, rhythmbox.
• Terinstall font2 windows – Times New Roman mesti ada lah, udah gitu langsung di jadiin font default lagi di OpenOffice.
• Tampilan Mac Style.
• Wine yang siap untuk install aplikasi untuk windows – ini yang bikin file installer setup.exe atau aplikasi exe windows dijalankan di Linux.
• Firefox yang luar biasa – yg ini jalan melebihi apa yg kita bayangkan, puluhan plugin udah terinstall (browsing optimizer, google optimezer, security, bookmark, dll), tentunya dengan interface yg juga sudah di permak gaya Opera.
• Semua tools insternet sudah tersedia: chat, google talk video, skype, downloader dan file sharing,
• Desktop effek langsung nyala.
• Dan yg paling akhir tapi yg paling utama adalah semua device terdeteksi dan dapat digunakan dengan sempurna (sound, wireless adapter, bluetooth, dll).

Jadi semua aplikasi yg dibutuhkan atau tidak terbayang telah ada, sudah terinstall. Dan yg penting bisa langsung digunakan tanpa harus menjadi Linux geek, tapi kayaknya bisa lebih keren dr punya mereka lho.

my whm and tomcat story

Managing WHM based server is easy for everyone. I thought no Linux knowledge needed. Managing name server, mail, redirect etc are already web base. Updating web server is easy. Apache, MySQL/postgresql, PHP and the modules are available with latest version, just choose what does we want, and during that configuration we guided by easyApache. If using the shell we can run this command /scripts/easyapache

Once, I need to check my ajexa server wether it's still on or already down. If the server down I need to restart it. And I found all server related services commands are on /scripts directory including command that I need 'restartsrv_tomcat'.
So then I create this python script which called ajexaSrvHandler.py on /etc/cron.daily which contain these code:

#!/usr/bin/python
import httplib
import subprocess

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.mywebsite.com', 8080)
conn.request('GET', '/ajexasrv/')

response = conn.getresponse()
if response.status != 200:
  subprocess.call('/scripts/restartsrv_tomcat')
  print "ajexasrv had failed and just already restarted"
conn.close()

And that script sent me email that contain printed value after restart the tomcat server, since I already put my email address on 'System mail Preference'. Very helpful thought, with minimum effort.

my gnome empty desktop (on etch debian)

Today my gnome with it sweet compiz-fusion got error message when I came back from lunch. I thought it was like usual (something move the mouse wheb at the same time gnome lock the screen. Some applications interface are grayed). But when i restart the desktop (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace) still I got the menu bar and other applications except nautilus file browser, also my desktop is blank (no wallpaper neither icons).

I got my desktop back after i remove all my home settings which related to gnome and nautilus and than run these commands:

• dpkg-reconfigure gdm
• dpkg-reconfigure gnome-desktop-data
• dpkg-reconfigure gnome-control-center
• dpkg-reconfigure gnome-menus
• dpkg-reconfigure gnome-system-tools
• dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets
• dpkg-reconfigure gnome-session

But still after running a while I got that error again. After all of those unsatisfied result I remove all my gnome and xserver-xorg

• apt-get remoce xserver-xorg --purge
• apt-get remove gnome gnome-utils gnome-core gnome-desktop-data gnome-desktop-environment
• apt-get remove --purge gnome gnome-core gnome-destop-environment
• aptitude purge gnome gnome-core gnome-destop-environment <<>

another command to remove all gnome related packaga are:
apt-get remove gnome*

after all package removed than reinstall gnome with this command:
apt-get install gnome-destop-environment

since than i got my gnome back....

I also got another cool package: gnome-fifth-toe

my source repo

Here are my repository site. At least i know where to find repository when i install new linux distro, since they provide for another distro except distro which listed bellow
my opensuse repo:

• URL: http://opensuse-community.org/subpixel/openSUSE_11.0
• URL: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.0
• URL: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.0_KDE4_Factory_Desktop
• URL: http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/openSUSE/update/11.0/
• URL: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Factory:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.0/
• URL: http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/openSUSE/distribution/11.0/repo/non-oss
• URL: http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/openSUSE/distribution/11.0/repo/oss
• URL: http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/debug/

my Debian repo:

• deb http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Debian/ etch main contrib non-free
• deb-src http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Debian/ etch main contrib non-free
• deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
• deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
• deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main
• deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main
• deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free
• deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
• deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/shames/debian-etch/desktopfx/stable/ ./

my Linux and Nvidia driver

Currently on my PC I got Debian etch4, openSUSE 11 and centOS 5.2. I just reformat my whole hard drives after I got failed to perform filesystem check on mounted system (sound stupid isn't it?, but while perform that process suddenly my electricity down, so that's make it worse).

I write this post just for keep my remember not to install nvidia video driver from those distro repository (event form openSUSE's one click solution) bacause I always got failed when install compiz-fusion based on that driver. So make sure always use driver that dowloaded from nvidia site.
But i know they have do their best to make it, and it must be happen one time
thanks to everyone that help me to make my Linux desktop seems beautiful

my internet radio

Today I just installed shoutcast server. Like before, actually it's easy to setting shoutcast. One thing that make it's seem hard is no clear description from documentation about what next to do. Because after I run the configured server and go to the admin page I got the page with status that server is currently down. But it's OK...
here's the video about shoutcast server installation
The problem solved after install shoutcast DSP plugin on winam (for Microsoft windows) or xmms (for window or linux) and configure the setting. For detail about DSP installation refer to this page: http://www.shoutcast.com/download/broadcast.phtml
Here's another vidoe about shoutcast installation: Another tool for making media stream server is by using icecast. Seems, icecast offer more advance option and planed to support more media file types.

my Openbravo on etch4 debian

Install latest apache ant, java SDK (1.6) and postgresql-8.3 get latest java SDK and postgresql-8.3 from backports by add this line on /etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free Before installing postgresql-8.3 I need to remove my older postgresql-common since befor I use default install postgres (7.4). Than install again postgresql-common using specified repository because without that option I still got the old version, event the new version alredy listed. Use this command to intall postgresql-common from backport: apt-get install -t etch-backports postgresql-common and than install postgresql-8.3 tomcat and java SDK like usual: apt-get install postgresql-8.3 sun-java6-jdk tomcat5.5 tomcat5.5-admin tomcat5.5-webapps Than follow Openbravo environment installation After all above steps I still couldn't got my openbravo login page. but it solved with this command: /usr/share/tomcat5.5/bin/catalina.sh run I didn't know what was hapened, but it's worked